[PD] floats getting forced into int

[Thomas Grill]

Hi all,
newer versions of the CNMAT OSC objects or Max implement type tag  
strings, which helps to overcome type misinterpretation.
No idea though whether the PD OSC objects at hand understand these  
type tags.

greetings,
Thomas

Am 14.02.2007 um 15:57 schrieb Roman Haefeli:

> hi david
>
> pd doesn't distinguish between floats and ints, since all numbers are
> 32-bit-floats in pd (whereas max/msp DOES distinguish between  
> floats and
> ints). so what actually happens in your example, is that all  
> numbers are
> converted to floats (ints are converted to floats, not the other way
> around). afaict, this shouldn't be a problem as long as you stay in  
> pd.
> a problem might occur, when you want to send numbers from pd to  
> another
> app like max/msp. when you want to send '1.0', this is turned to  
> '1' by
> pd, so the app on the other side might think, it is an int, though  
> it is
> meant to be a float. i don't know of a nice way yet to overcome this.
>
> roman
>
> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 08:35 -0500, David Brynjar Franzson wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I am working on a project that sends OSC messages from PD, and for
>> some reason, when dealing with message lists of mixed objects,  
>> such as
>> [send /OSC/blah 0.0 1.0 1.0], PD turns the floating point numbers  
>> into
>> int, but only when they represent whole numbers. Can anyone think  
>> of a
>> work around where they stay as floating point, or is there some  
>> simple
>> solution that I am missing (I can't be bothered to hack up an  
>> external
>> just to solve this).
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> db
>>
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